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Heck, I thought you were going to be AWOL for like a month, so it's pretty cool that you can stay with us. Do your thing and keep your eyes on the goal. Enjoy your burning 100 degrees. I'll take my 90's thanks! =P
I put gadgets in the kitchen. =P Christmas dinner dangit! It's gonna happen.
The Texas heat is a bitch though it's actually been a relatively mild summer. Well at least not 70+ days in a row of 100+ degree weather.
Alcohol is now in the Rec Room, though it seems that only Kat and Bill have actually eaten anything. Though any brave soul entering on an empty stomach would make it interesting to say the least.
As requested!
*Puts a Gold Star sticker on Bill/StoryTime's forehead.* Good boy!
Hey, Xmas dinner is gonna be AMAZING! =P
I've been baking under a gazebo because that's all the Army has for us to do until class starts Wednesday. Every now and then we'll march to chow or go do some in-processing shit. I drank about 5 bottles of water, which is 3,500 ml. lol It's the only way I can survive black flag heat.
If it's not too late, I added a piece of equipment to my character profile.
Wednesday was the greatest 9/11 tribute battalion run ever. We even had the Navy join us (since they don't PT...ever lol). I was soaked when we were finished and the company commander was so pumped.
I passed my quiz and exam. I got another exam to pass Tuesday. If you don't pass these exams with 76 or better, you lose college credit and you also go to remedial or something. I think you have to make it up, but there's a comprehensive exam at the end of each book. We're in Lab right now. If I fail ANY of those exams then I'd have to take the comprehensive for Lab, and seriously, fuck that business. It's too much material to have to go back and study. I already have to study two sections for this one test by Tuesday and during the weekday, there's no time for that. So I'm doing Unit 3 today and Unit 4 tomorrow.
But I was just sharing for motivational purposes lol. If you have bad grades, then you'll never phase up. This guy was phase 4 until his last month here. I think they just phased him up to 5 and then I just heard his platoon sergeant this morning say that she didn't phase him lol. Sucks. It happens though.
But pretty much phase 5 is when you look like a civilian for once, and 5+ you can leave the base. Right now, I'm in my camo all day except for bed time I'm in my PT gear lol. Call me nerdy, but as long as I got my laptop and cell phone, I'm good. I don't need anything else (training too short for anything else). This training, total, is 52 weeks long. Phase 1 is 26 weeks (this is the one you need to desperately pass), and then Phase 2 is 26 weeks (hard to fail once you get to this point). I will be changing duty stations AGAIN once I graduate Phase 1. I'm not sure if Phase 2 is my permanent duty station that I'll be at once I finish training, but maybe. What I didn't know, is that at times the Army will have lab techs perform an autopsy. I find that strangely interesting, but once one Sergeant described how he had to do one on an obese fat woman, all I could think of was, hell no lol.
Geez, don't you want to go all Mad Scientist and Dr Frankenstein?!?! Besides, cutting into an obese body could be highly motivational. You'll see what happens to organs and muscles that have excess. Dun dun DUN!!!
What all do you get to do in lab? I have a handful of friends who are geneticists and another handful Docs in practice and research. Can be interesting stuff. Though, the ER stories are more on the spot entertaining/blech effect.
Hope you're having fun swimming in 100+ degrees.